will be over we are not suppose for what we are we're a family unbelievable. you send me a phenomenon starting october fifteenth on d w. with the date of the news coming to you live from berlin a surprise decision in saudi arabia state media says the ultra conservative kingdom will finally allow women to drive saudi arabia is the only country on earth where women are banned from driving and activists been finding for years to get that one

overturned also coming up on the program germany's chancellor is under pressure from all saw mrs marrable six to build a stable government the leader of her bulgarian sister party says things have to change following the conservatives huge election losses. and just two days after germany's right wing any of these celebrated huge election gains the party's co-leaders says she'll resign. us france's president calls for more european unity among a lot calling once a joint budget for the eurozone and a shared military intervention force but how is that going to go down elsewhere in the end you find out coming up. i'm sorry welcome to the show it's good to have you with us it's a ride around the world that most people take for granted but women in saudi arabia have. never been allowed to drive until perhaps now state media says the saudi king

selma has issued a new decree officially ending the much criticized law it's not yet clear when the change is going to come into effect the announcement comes just days after saudi women were allowed to protect international day celebrations together with the men at the main stadium in riyadh. well for some analysis on this i'm joined now by d.w. anchor and reporter to far abdul kareem hi sarah so far thanks for coming in yeah wow what a surprise for you expecting this to be honest no i wasn't expecting this but i know very well a lot of women econd rights activists have been working day by day and now for more can since months and years in order to have the right to drive and now it's finally happening when you look around and of already talk to some of the women rights activists who are some are in saudi and others are abroad they are over very happy are celebrating just enjoying the moment now that it's finally so far that they see

dems have and they can drive which is a small step also full of them although today everyone is celebrating but nevertheless it's a step for them and there's still a lot of frights they want to have but for now everyone is celebrating even when you check social media they are just very happy because today it was announced and it might take to be taken into action by june state t.v. announced today. that you don't drive your car today in saudi arabia if you're going to what we know today what the news are since the since maybe almost one hour is in june to swell to it will be taken into action and for knowledge it's the first step and now they have to issue a driving license because. we have also to have it to mention that if a woman once even to issue a driving license she has to take the ok from the guardian which is her father or her husband or her son in this case you know your hands so i think it's the first

to four getting more rights but nevertheless people and everyone should enjoy this moment but it's still only one and the first step for not the first step that you've got a lot of reporting on this women have been working since yes ninety s to get this right and some of them have paid a really high price for it yes some of them one of them. is very well known she was the first. one who crossed the borders and entered saudi arabia and she was she was driving and then she was jailed others who already did this to this same step they were are now in a living in saudi arabia because their necks are and they're afraid of getting back maybe this will change but it's only a maybe that's why a lot of human who have been being doing a lot of things in order to be able to drive are today outside outside. saudi arabia i just talked to some who are in usa somewhere and kind of but they are for the moment they are happy it's a big moment let's talk about my saudi woman herself now is joined on the line by

tom adore ellen yummie she's a journalist and a writer and one of the women who's been working so actively to win this right tom adore thanks for being with us on day w. news how does it feel this moment for you it's a very exciting moment but i cannot even begin to describe how likely you know it this is dark moment that all frowsy t.l.c. has been waiting for i mean i'm sure not all set up we have a jury some who sacrifice a lot of their family time peace of mind that their efforts to to ask for this right to actively go behind the wheel and take out to the trees and risk being caught and cannot be doing i suppose on my knee and i i thank god and i appreciate every single one of those who fall for that life i'm sure sorry for all of those who have and it is for me as to our day well congratulations it's

a big moment for you what's next we're going to focus your attention on now. well now that the dry think has had a hand but that side or at least out of the way. there are other issues for saudi women and other rights as are yet to be gained and taking baths like. those that are connected to the target just pushed them and her right to have an easy case to have asked this to health care and due to travel perhaps without the permission of a male guardian and even those laws have been. there was a royal decree asking that all the laws that ask women for their guardians that permission would be summarized as the end of records and taken up to the local courts for research and there we are optimistic that next

week we will see you and i will decree. you know revising and and cancelling all those laws that have to do with the guardianship and so there's still a lot to fight for but this is an important victory for you we don't want to take up any more of your time i'm sure you have some celebrating to do telnet or thanks for speaking with us today on the tank via thank you so much we've got some comments rolling in from social media the egyptian u.s. journalist and call her mona eltahawy has written and campaigned tirelessly for women's rights in the arab world she posted this on twitter. i celebrate saudi women who fought for decades for this and shamed the regime for its massage any those women will liberate sisters from guardianship at the same time she questioned whether the right to drive would be subject to a male guardians permission this canadian woman originally from saudi arabia

tweeted as a woman who grew up in saudi i can't tell you how incredible this is to hear i have no words my eyes are leaking meanwhile arab and middle eastern policy analyst youssef najjar urged caution in interpreting this announcement reminding us that it does not take effect straight away he tweeted the saudi order was about issuing driver's licenses to women by june of twenty eight hundred pending committee recommendations this is far from letting women dr. jeffrey let's get your reaction yes how much can we read into this is a sign that saudi arabia is moving toward a more modern stance on women's rights or is that too much interpretation i mean for no you can interpret to into prison kind of way you say you have the twenty thirty vision and what is that if people twenty third to vision is done by the by mohamed bin nun who is now the. but the king the. one

lower exactly france maybe exactly the koreans who said like to twenty thirty we want to do a lot of changes and it could be this one could we could be part of this change and you don't have to forget that. owns half of the saudi arabia citizens are under twenty five so you have a lot of young generation the young generation who is educated most of them go abroad to study and come back so they know more about their rights so for now it could be an interpretation that a step towards modernization but i'll see one hundred to moderation so just one step right we don't want to get sick carried away thanks for putting this in context for us to far out call karim here from the chair. i'll bring you more updates on the story as we get it turning now to some other news german chancellor angela merkel is coming under increasing pressure as she works to cobble together a new government or a very and sister party the c.s.u. insists that policy changes are needed and lessons must be learned after the conservatives big election losses but the chancellor already has her plate full as

she seeks to build a coalition with the pro-business free democrats and the environmentalist greens two parties that don't have much in common. the chancellor and the head of her sister party the c.s.u. have an urgent task winning back their voters who supported the far right in sunday's election the question is how and that's a source of friction between the two party leaders the former transportation minister a member of the c.s.u. says the conservatives work is cut out for them. then of this year we have to remember the whole political spectrum for and from the center to the democratic right wing. that could mean the chancellor and her conservatives drifting further right to steal the populist fire the two parties are mulling over their options for the next coalition governments make up for merkel there's only one possibility governing with the business friendly free democrats and the

environmentally oriented green party the greens say such a coalition would come at a price pushing through the greens agenda. we face enormous challenges the greens are prepared to make them head on but it's clear they can't be any sleepwalking here if the coalition works out fine but if it doesn't forget and. the free democrats say it's imperative that the two conservative sister parties find common ground. it's always the same with the c.s.u. you never know if they'll have the same position tomorrow i think they could use a session in couples counseling with. the social democrats have reiterated their position after their punishing election result they will not join a new government with the chancellor. via gear and indeed we're going into opposition that's in service of the country and the service to our democracy the

wrangling for a new governing coalition continues. for some analysis i'm joined now by political correspondent simon young simon welcome to the studio i'm going merkel needs to win back the voters that she lost on the right flank of the party after she did you know that really is the challenge frankel americal one of many at the moment but her conservatives lost a million voters out of the f.t. so if they really go to look at that clearly it means that they've got to find clearer and more persuasive responses to the concerns that people who voted f.t. have chief among them of course concerns about the immigration policy she's got to show that she's taking that seriously i think inevitably it means whatever coalition she's able to put together and that is far from clear at the moment as we've seen there. she will have to express how she's going to control immigration numbers in the coming years while as she says continuing with

a humanitarian cause yeah and it's not going to be easy to seduce those voters back into the conservative party while flirting with the coalition partners the f.d.p. a pro-business party and the environmentalists group it seems like an impossible task is that realistic well it's very tricky as everybody is acknowledging i mean with the free democrats perhaps it won't be so difficult i mean they have in this election campaign said that they think immigration needs to be tightened up in favor of a an immigration law or a sort of canadian style point system as they call it of course focusing on people who are really useful immediately to the german economy rather than just a sort of mass immigration that's happened over the last couple of years with the greens it's going to be more difficult to have that tightening because they have focused very much on the human humanitarian message they've said how much they supported policy of welcome so you know squaring the circle in particular with the

bavarian conservatives who. calling for much tougher law and in fact for an absolute cap on numbers to square that circle is going to be very very tricky in these coalition talks a lot of people saying so unlikely that coalition could happen before christmas if until we have a lot more coming let's talk about the f.d.a. for a minute they had their first day of meetings at the bundestag but first let's have a look at what's happened to them just since sunday's election it's been kind of a wild ride it should have been a moment of triumph for the f.t. the first meeting of their new parliamentary group the freshly elected f.t. lawmakers chose elise speidel and alexander golland as coal parliamentary leaders the duo faced a barrage of questions about party chairwoman from three's shock announcement that she will resign for galland petris move was the logical consequence of her recent actions. i have to admit i'm thankful that she has gone down this route because i'm

not a big fan of party expulsion processes so it's good that she solve the problem this way you just a few guys are going to. be a treat once the face of the f.t. held her own press conference she explained why she and her husband also went after a member have decided to leave the party. well you know if you have a set of eyes our goals have not changed one bit since the election of course i still want to work towards political change in twenty twenty one initially as an individual member of parliament and perhaps later in a different constellation and. that statement already has many inside and outside the f.t. wondering if petri has plans to set up a rival far right party. well so patriot drop there is she going to take her voters with her when she goes where she could take some people of

course because as was said there she. has been a charismatic figure and it's not just her husband who's a regional leader of the a.f.p. who's withdrawn from the party today and that makes sense of course but also quite a few regional and local officials from around the country but it's anything other than a mass exodus from the page is going to be sitting on her own in parliament she won't be able to form her own new party bloc i think that that's point in the sky so she'll be sitting there of course the one thing that might resonate is that she said you know the f.d.a. doesn't seem to have any plans ever to belong to any german government at the moment their policies are too unrealistic she says well you know as the months go by that might prove to be true and some people might think well she was so wrong after all interesting ok they have to has announced new layers alice vital and alexander gone when where are they going to take the party yeah i mean it's very

interesting these are the people who've laid the f.t. into parliament there are a kind of an old couple you've got alexander go and he's old school he's tweed jacket. well he's old and he's you know he's been around for a long time used to be a member of the c.d.u. angle america's party he said a lot of rather controversial things over the last few months including sort of support for. the nazi era german military and that sort of thing which strikes a very strange turn vital for her part is much younger but more importantly she is a lesbian and she's in partnership with a sri lankan lady so very very very different face of the a f d a not really expect for a far right party it isn't and it's not all clear what she stands for she has been close to the right now she seems to have become a little more flexible at the moment i think one thing you can say right now this new policy in germany is parliament is very keen to look good to look like

a real normal party and first of all to you know play by the rules and make sure they don't sort of trip up only many technical difficulties seems like they're off to a rocky start how do you rate their chances of doing that of appearing to be a normal german party well it's very difficult they've got the media against them they've got the establishment against them all the other political parties are saying they won't work with them i'm sure the first question will be you know who's going to be the speaker of the parliament's deputies because they're all parties are meant to have one but it may well be that the other party so we're not going to let you take that prominent role in parliament so there are going to be a lot of little battles like this that they're going to have to you know decide how much provocation they want to do and how much they want to play by the rules sounds like we're going to be hearing a lot more from you simon young in the coming days as the a.f.p. works out their strategy thanks for walking us through that european council president donald tusk says sufficient progress has not been made on bracks at talks

to move ahead to the next stage of negotiations but he did welcome what he called a more constructive and realistic tone now coming from the british government as comments came during his visit with prime minister tony from a in london may says a solution beneficial for both sides can still be found. well as brocks it looms over the european union french president is calling for greater cooperation within the bloc speaking at the sorbonne in paris an ambitious vision for europe calling on the block to night in the face of domestic and foreign challenges. at a time when the european project is under attack as never before in my newer met call spent nearly two hours laying out his vision for a united europe. the europe we know is too weak to slow and too inefficient but only europe and europe alone can give us the capacity to act against the big challenges we face now. flanked by french and european flags

he said europe needed to relaunch itself with greater cooperation on issues including asylum seekers border protection and intelligence secu margaret preset what's missing in europe today with regard to defense is a common strategic culture in our incapacity to act together in a convincing manner puts our credibility in question. could he be. as well as strategic issues he also called for the creation of a transnational agency to foster european innovation financial stability and corporate tax were also areas where he said much deeper cooperation was needed. for you to. instead of concentrating all our energy on our internal divisions as we've been doing now for far too long instead of losing our way in arguments in a european civil war arguing about budgets finances politics or whatever we need to consider how to build a europe that strong. feeling. but

at a time when tensions between eastern and western europe are stressing the union and member states are still battling to overcome nearly a decade of economic crisis calls idealistic discourse was not going to please everyone outside the venue several hundred students protested against his planned reform agenda in the countryside to his speech will have received a less than favorable response rural france is where far right leader been lookin has his support base and the future of europe as an entity will depend on whether the unions two strongest members france and germany can work together to defeat the common enemy with the. well turning now. german just rolled giant same and so struck a deal to expand its rail empire. story in the two forms of cold calling it a merger among equals this just in now siemens has confirmed a deal to join forces with france as alstom to make

a huge european trained builder the government there is privately encouraging the deal which analysts say is a change of tact the focus is now no longer on protecting french business but about creating a european powerhouse after all the competition from abroad is fierce. the fusion between siemens and al stone is on track to create a new european giant in the train building business. in the near future the german i.c.e. and the french t.g.v. will come from a single manufacturer siemens wants to bring its entire train division in return for a fifty percent cut of the new firm which will be based in paris but they're not doing it entirely of their own free will they're not. sure the real construction and signposting market is in a state of advanced consolidation the chinese group c. r. c. is today bigger than alstom siemens and canada's bomb body a combined the next step of this chinese group is in all likelihood continental

europe where c.r.c. could rely on a purchase of a european manufacturers. even after the new firm is founded the pressure on the europeans will increase siemens has considered canadian company body a but the deal was reportedly derailed by bomb body is shaky finances however if the competition authorities aren't all aboard the big european deal will hit the buffers. prosecutors in the united states have charged ten people including an added us executive with bribery and fraud that's following a widespread investigation into corruption in college basketball prosecutors accuse the manager of bribing athletes families to get players to attend universities that added to sponsors the german sports when they can confirm the arrest of their executive on tuesday saying it was unaware of any wrongdoing on its part.

and sophie szymanski is on wall street for us sophie how serious is this case. i mean the f.b.i. is investigating this case so it seems pretty serious to mean and to me and it could mean huge damage to the editor through a few taken and it could also shape the rivalry between ideas and if competitor nike not too long ago i did have became the number two of the american freak a market was something around eleven percent of market share nike being the number one by far was thirty seven percent and this is a fair investigation good help nike making this margin bigger of course simply because it is all about the reputation and the connection between a healthy brand and famous ethylene said this case young baka ballplayers and let me quote the u.s. attorney here month after month the defendants allegedly exploited the hoop dreams

of student athletes treating them as little more than a opportunities to enrich themselves and this sounds pretty bad and most investors expect the additive stock to react after the or pin markets are open it's a very controversial case they're checking in with equities now it's been a wolf week by the looks of things for tech stocks so far. yes so let me say something about two kompany maybe here netflix and apple let me first touch on netflix briefly networks and studios are tired of netflix and amazon drawing people onto their platforms so they are ramping up their own platforms afaik networks is persuading pay t.v. operators to sell an alternative ethics class a paid service offering hits like american horror story for example and netflix lost of course during the morning here on the stock exchange at the same time

investors are closely watching the episode start digging at times claims that the u.s. firm has asked its component suppliers to slow down component shipments for the apple i phone ten production and this report has not been verified yet but it kind of matches the picture that demand is not going to up at the moment so fishman ski on wall street thank you very much for that update and it's back over to sorry thanks daniel. just time for reminder of our headlines this hour saudi arabia says it's going to let women drive for the first time ever the ultra conservative kingdom is the only country on earth that bans women from driving that's about to change though state media says saudi king solomon has issued a new decree officially changing the law it's expected to go into effect in june. german chancellor angela merkel is coming under pressure a she works to cobble together a new government leader of her bavarian sister parties calling for change following

the conservatives massive losses in that last election but merkel already has her plate full as she seeks to build a coalition with both the pro-business free democrats and the environmentalist greens two parties with very little love lost between them. and the far right alternative for germany is facing fresh turmoil just two days after becoming the third largest party in the german parliament and leader franco painter says she's leaving the party accusing it of moving too far to the right and early and aiding voters. news coming to live from berlin i'm sara harman of the news desk you're up to date and don't forget you can always find the latest on our web site at www dot com more coming in just a few minutes stay with us if you can. can

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